My research is in English history, Yoyo, but I take an interest in a much wider area. Yes, I am interested in the Tang dynasty also though the seminars I took ... read more
discussion post on Mon, November 16, 2009 - 6:51 PM
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Hi. I'm English, a student and 23 years old. That's really as much as I want to say for the present! If you like my blogs here do please visit my main site, which is to be found at anatheimp.blogspot.com
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Re: Tang Dynasty Classical Chinese Dance Workshop, Savannah, GA - Sat. Dec. 5th.
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Sadly almost all of the tribes that I take an interest in seem to be moribund. :-)
My research is in English history, Yoyo, but I take an interest in a much wider area. Yes, I am interested in the Tang dynasty also though the seminars I took ... read more
Re: Baba Yaga
(in Dark Goddesses)
Just the stories I read as a child. I think I have all of the main details here but if I discover more I'll let you know.
discussion post on Mon, November 16, 2009 - 6:40 PM
Re: Tang Dynasty Classical Chinese Dance Workshop, Savannah, GA - Sat. Dec. 5th.
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I'm sorry I'm so far away. :-)
discussion post on Thu, November 12, 2009 - 6:19 PM
My Blog
"Public Enemies", directed with considerable panache by Michael Mann, tells the story-or part of the story-of John Dillinger, a bank-robber of Depression-era America, so notorious that he was labelled ‘public enemy number one’ by J. Edgar Hoover, then director of the emerging FBI. Johnny Depp does a first class job in bringing Dillinger to life as the perfect American anti-hero without, it seems to me, drawing on ‘tough guy’ or gangster stereotypes. Dillinger himself turned into a sort of f...
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Sun, July 26, 2009 - 4:44 PM
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Christmas Day, the 25th of December, the day that Jesus was born in a manger, is it not? Well, actually, no, it isn’t. The Gospels make no mention of the day, or the time of year, when Christ entered the world. It was centuries after his death that the Church alighted on 25 December.
Sun, June 21, 2009 - 5:48 PM
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And why that specific date? For the simple reason that the church was adept at grafting its own feast days on to pre-existing pagan holidays. Late December was the very height of the Roman holiday, the time of... read more 
I love film noir and Body Heat, starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, is one of the best movies in this genre. Made as long ago as 1981, Turner plays Matty Walker, a ruthlessly ambitious woman, a femme fatale in the most complete sense. A married woman, she becomes sexually involved with Hurt, who plays Ned Racine, a small-time lawyer. Their original meeting seems entirely coincidental but, bit by bit, as the story unravels, it becomes clear that Matty has deliberately chosen Racine i...
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Mon, June 8, 2009 - 5:51 PM
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Nothing really ever happens in isolation but as part of a sequence. I must say that the continuing obsession with 2012 and the coming Armageddon continues to cause me lots of impish amusement, as if this eagerly anticipated event, and, yes, some do seem to anticipate it eagerly, is of seminal significance, a case sui generis. That’s rubbish of course, as anyone who has any knowledge of the currents and eddies of history will tell you. I’ve already written about Asahara but let me pilot yo...
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Thu, May 14, 2009 - 10:52 PM
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Here below is a response that I wrote to a question on one of the social networks I belong to. I'm recording it here as well as on my Ana the Imp page on Blogger.
Sun, May 3, 2009 - 6:42 PM
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OK, I really don’t want to comment on the particular issues you have raised about Saddam’s rule in Iraq, or his attributes as a father (though you might want to check how Uday, the eldest son, turned out), and I certainly don’t want to say anything about American domestic politics! In fact I’m going to sidestep your specif... read more
My Tribes
20th Century German History,
ALL ABOUT TRAVEL,
Archaeology,
Aristotle,
Battle of Tours Redux,
Bisexual Love,
Black Hat Society,
Chinese History,
Civil War,
Crisis in Central America,
cuckmakers,
Cuckold pregnancy,
Dark Goddesses,
Elizabethan England,
Existentialism,
German Philosophy,
Greece & Rome,
Greek Philosophy,
gypsy witch,
History of Western Philosophy,
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